Oratory of the Good Shepherd

The Oratory of the Good Shepherd (OGS) is a dispersed international religious community, within the Anglican Communion.

The spirit of the oratory is expressed in its "Seven Notes", which call the brethren to fellowship, stewardship of gifts and possessions, love, labour of the mind and to a life of joy and thanksgiving.

Among its members have been Fr Alec Vidler, a noted liberal scholar, and Fr Eric Mascall, a more conservative Thomist, and many have wondered how such diverse people could exist in the same order, but this has been perfectly possible, given the breadth enjoined by the Notes, and the ideal of the Love that makes for Peace.

Members are organised into local "colleges", each of which in turn is a part of one of the four provinces of the oratory; Australia, Europe, North America and South Africa.

The current officers of the oratory include the superior general, Bishop Lindsay Urwin; the secretary-general, the Venerable Edward Simonton; and the almoner-general, Father Petter Hibbert.

The Rev’d Dominic Austin Cawdell,[4] the youngest priest ordained in the Church in Wales, is also a professed brother of OGS.